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SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 390ff., three fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome verse roundels, sura headings in gold muhaqqaq on illuminated ground, text panels outlined with gold and polychrome, margins with cusped gold khams and ‘ashr medallions, opening bifolio with large gold and polychrome illuminated shamsas containing floral sprays, the following folio with gold and polychrome illuminated borders, colophon with the spurious signature of 'Abd al-Baqi al-Tabrizi in muhaqqaq on gold arabesque ground surrounded by gold and polychrome floral scrolling vine borders, later owner's seal impressions at beginning and end, in associated Ottoman tooled and gilded maroon morocco with marbled paper doublures
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (13.7 x 8.7cm.); folio 7¾ x 5 1/8in. (19.6 x 13cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 390ff., three fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome verse roundels, sura headings in gold muhaqqaq on illuminated ground, text panels outlined with gold and polychrome, margins with cusped gold khams and ‘ashr medallions, opening bifolio with large gold and polychrome illuminated shamsas containing floral sprays, the following folio with gold and polychrome illuminated borders, colophon with the spurious signature of 'Abd al-Baqi al-Tabrizi in muhaqqaq on gold arabesque ground surrounded by gold and polychrome floral scrolling vine borders, later owner's seal impressions at beginning and end, in associated Ottoman tooled and gilded maroon morocco with marbled paper doublures
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (13.7 x 8.7cm.); folio 7¾ x 5 1/8in. (19.6 x 13cm.)
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